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Dynamic Deans New college leaders prepared for today’s challenges, tomorrow’s promise BY SUSAN MESSINA
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ver the past year, four of UNC Charlotte’s seven academic colleges have welcomed new deans. With impressive credentials and fresh perspectives to coincide with the energy generated by the arrival of a new chancellor, these dynamic leaders are eager to apply their expertise to the opportunities facing their colleges and lessons of the current global pandemic to what they view as the bright future of higher education. Arriving in fall 2019 were Brook Muller, dean, College of Arts + Architecture, from the University of Oregon, where he was director of the Portland Architecture Program and a professor in the Architecture Department, and Catrine Tudor-Locke, dean, College of Health and Human Services, from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she was associate dean for research and administration for the School of Public Health and Sciences. Arriving this fall are Robert Keynton, dean of The William States Lee College of Engineering, from the University of Louisville, where he was interim executive vice president for Research and Innovation, and the Lutz Endowed Chair of Biomechanical Devices in the Department of Engineering at the Speed School of Engineering, and Jennifer Troyer, who was appointed dean of the Belk College of Business after serving the college since 1999 as senior associate dean and professor of Economics, including the department’s chair, and associate dean for research and graduate programs. 44 UNC CHARLOTTE magazine
| Fall 2020
Brook Muller My decision to come here was reinforced on the first day of new faculty orientation in August 2019, which took place uptown, where conversations with city council members and leaders of nonprofits and community organizations made an enormous impression.
